T.O. Selfridge papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1900
Subjects: United States Darien Exploring Expedition (1870); Surveys; Merrimack (Frigate); Cumberland (Frigate); Confederate States of America. Navy; Naval operations; History; Correspondence; Description and travel; Confederate States of America; United States Darien Exploring Expedition (1871 and 1873); Canals; Discovery and exploration
Description: Correspondence, journals, logbooks, notebooks, scrapbooks, maps, drawings, and other papers relating primarily to Selfridge's command of survey expeditions to the Isthmus of Darien (Panama) as a site for an interoceanic canal in the 1870s.  Includes material relating to the sinking of the USF Cumberland (Frigate) by the CSS Merrimack (Frigate) in 1862, the purchase of the John T. Pickett papers (Confederate States of America records) in Canada in 1872 by the United States, and Selfridge's court-martial in 1888.  Correspondents include Daniel Ammen, J.P. Benjamin, Edward Knight Collins, George Davidson, W.W. Evans, Gustavus Vasa Fox, James Bicheno Francis, John B. Jervis, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Benjamin Peirce, John L. Porter, Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Sr., and J. Dutton Steele.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1949.

Converted to gift, 1998.

Naval officer and explorer.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012017

Register published by the Library of Congress, 1969.

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.